SMOKE BREAK
Fabio Cherstich Takes Mel Ottenberg Into the Annals of Gay Art History
December 23, 2024
After the last of his three performances at La MaMa, the opera director joined our editor-in-chief to talk about dedicating his life to the preservation of queer art.
STUDIO VISIT
How Painter Anthony Cudahy Finds Intimacy In The Mundane
December 20, 2024
“I’m interested in there not being any censoring of what can exist in my painted world,” said the artist, whose solo exhibition is now on view at The Green Family Art Foundation.
ARCHIVES
“Love, Joe”: Inside Artist Joe Brainard’s Private Letters to Andy Warhol
December 19, 2024
In this excerpt from a new book of Joe Brainard’s personal correspondence, the New School artist writes to Andy Warhol about art deals and vacation in Southhampton.
PISS CHRIST
“Artists Need Obsessions”: Andres Serrano, in Conversation With Todd Solondz
December 18, 2024
To mark the opening of his show at Lubov, the artist and filmmaker got together in Manhattan to reminisce on the infamous piece that made Serrano a household name.
NUDE
How a New Portfolio of Lost Paul Cadmus Drawings Is Redefining His Legacy
December 13, 2024
Graham Steele and Jarrett Earnest join us to talk about “Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings,” a new portfolio of the artist’s sketches of his lover and muse, Jon Anderson.
IN CONVERSATION
Rafik Greiss and Rose Salane on Nostalgia, Transcendence, and Revolution
December 12, 2024
To mark the opening of his new solo show “The Longest Sleep” at Balice Hertling, the artist joined his friend and curator to discuss what inspired his most recent work.
FAIR
Meet Shanzhai Lyric, the Art Collective Celebrating New York City’s Digestive Tract
December 11, 2024
At the fifth edition of “Press Play,” Pioneer Works’ annual art fair, we talked to Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky about parrots, piracy, and the profundity of plastic bags.
BASEL
“I’m Obsessed With Ambiguity”: 20 Minutes in Miami With Artist Lucy Bull
December 10, 2024
“I was a slightly delayed bad girl,” says the painter, whose solo exhibition, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” opened last week at ICA Miami.
RICHES
Big Money and Micro Bikinis: Taylore’s Miami Art Week Diary
December 9, 2024
Our senior editor documents the best in overhyped parties and expensive outfits.
MORNING AFTER
“That Was a Big Moment For Me”: Inside the BlackStar Luminary Gala With Tourmaline
December 9, 2024
After being honored at the Luminary Gala thrown by Blackstar Projects, the artist recapped her big night in Philadelphia with us and writer J Wortham.
BACKSTAGE
“Eyeliner Is Butch”: Casey Jane Ellison Takes Us Inside Her New One-Woman Show
December 4, 2024
On the eve of her new one-woman show in Los Angeles, the comedian joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss nudity, sisterhood, and the perils of feeling too cool.
STUDIO VISIT
Artist Ruby Neri on Motherhood, Primal Urges, and Her Buxom, Bronzed Sculptures
November 27, 2024
The Los Angeles-based sculptor invited us to her studio to talk about the compulsive urge to create that resulted in her new solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery.
IN CONVERSATION
Dorothea Rockburne and Walter Robinson on Sex, Fame, and Mathematics
November 26, 2024
“Art is sexual,” says the 95-year-old contemporary artist, “and that’s very hard to talk about because this is a culture which completely perverts sex, in my opinion.”
NAKED
Meet Lara Verheijden, the Photographer Reinventing the Nude Calendar
November 26, 2024
“Everybody in general is someone you want to have sex with,” the photographer says of the subjects she shot for the Texas and New York editions of her 2025 nude calendar.
provocateur
Artist Tom Sachs on Chainsaws, Cybertrucks, and Egg McMuffins
November 21, 2024
At Acquavella, where his new show is currently on view, the artist opened up about everything— except the recent exposé accusing him of running a cult-like workplace.
BACKSTAGE
“I’m the Long-Reigning Queen”: Behind the Scenes With Camp Icon Alina Troyano
November 20, 2024
Playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins sat down with his former teacher to reminisce on the downtown theater scene she helped create.
OPENING
“The Camera Is the Fetish”: Devan Díaz on Curating Bad Girls at OCD Chinatown
November 7, 2024
After the opening of “Bad Girls” at OCD Chinatown, curator Devan Díaz called our fashion director Dara to talk about the trans nude and feminine expression.
MARTYRDOM
“Art Makes the Unbearable Bearable”: Romana Londi, in Conversation With Ottessa Moshfegh
November 5, 2024
To mark the opening of her exhibition at Rhinoceros Gallery, the Italian painter talked to novelist Ottessa Moshfegh about pain, pleasure, and depictions of martyrdom.
OPENING
“Acid at the Country Club”: Painter Witt Fetter Examines Image Overload at Derosia
November 5, 2024
While surveying her latest batch of meme paintings, now on view at Derosia, the artist talked to us about country club culture and the “Brat-ification” of Kamala Harris.
IN CONVERSATION
Kilo Kish and Savanah Leaf on Making Art About the American Dream
October 31, 2024
The musician and artist Kilo Kish talked to the filmmaker Savanah Leaf about embracing criticism and the day-to-day endurance of being an artist.